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<h1 class="article__heading"><strong>Iranian Army chief vows to raze 2 Israeli cities to the ground if it makes ‘tiniest’ mistake</strong></h1>
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<h1 class="article__heading"><strong>Iranian Army chief vows to raze 2 Israeli cities to the ground if it makes ‘tiniest’ mistake</strong></h1>
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<div class="article__summary summary">An Iranian Army commander warns that Tehran will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground if Israel makes any mistake, local media report. The commander also said Israel will not last longer than 25 years.</div>
<div class="article__text text js-mediator-article"><p>Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, who became commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (AJA) in August this year, <a href="https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2017/09/18/1522686/tiniest-mistake-would-cause-israel-s-immediate-demise-iran-army-chief" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> on Monday that Israel may exist for a maximum of 25 more years, as cited by Tasnim news agency.</p>
<p>He added that any mistake by Israel would result in Haifa and Tel Aviv being razed to the ground, the news outlet reports.</p>
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<p>Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has said on several occasions in the past that Israel won’t last another 25 years.</p>
<p>Khamenei also repeatedly urged Muslims to <em>“resist and fight”</em> to seize Jerusalem, a city that is claimed as a capital by both Israelis and Palestinians.</p>
<p><em>“As I’ve said before, if Muslims & Palestinians unite & all fight, the Zionist regime will not be in existence in 25 years,”</em> Khamenei wrote on Twitter in December.</p>
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<p>Israel and Iran have repeatedly exchanged verbal jabs. In June this year, there were anti-Israel rallies across Iran on Al-Quds Day, with protesters shouting slogans against the Jewish state and <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/393760-iran-death-to-irael-america-rally/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">condemning</a> the occupation of Palestine. People shouted <em>“Death to Israel”</em> and held banners with slogans such as <em>“Israel should be wiped off the map.”</em> </p>
<p>Israel has also had harsh words regarding Iran.</p>
<p><em>“I wouldn’t be surprised if, during the Iranian election on May 19, somebody assassinates the president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani,”</em> Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.782775" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> in April. </p>
<p>In March, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said that Iran remains a threat to Israel with or without the nuclear deal.</p>
<p><em>“As long as the current regime exists, with the nuclear agreement or without it, Iran will continue to serve as the main threat to Israel’s security,”</em> Cohen <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Mossad-chief-Iran-is-main-threat-to-Israel-with-or-without-nuclear-deal-484766" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>. </p>
<p>Tehran and Jerusalem have been geopolitical archrivals since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979 as the new Iranian government refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state and cut diplomatic ties.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/403628-iran-us-nuclear-deal/">READ MORE: Iran will react strongly to any ‘wrong move’ by US over ...</a></strong></p>
<p>Israel has been on the forefront of those accusing Iran of weaponizing its nuclear program and blames it for supporting Shia armed groups such as the Palestinian Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah.</p>
<p>Iran, for its part, blames Israel for oppressing Muslims, backing anti-Iranian groups and covert operations on Iranian territory.</p>
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2015-04-20T23:34:01.030Z
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<h1>Obama downplays Russia S-300 supply to Iran, ‘jaws drop’ in Israel</h1>
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<h1>Obama downplays Russia S-300 supply to Iran, ‘jaws drop’ in Israel</h1>
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<p>US President Barack Obama has admitted he was “surprised” that Moscow held back resumption of S-300 supplies to Iran for so long. Some Israeli officials are reportedly saying the prospect of derailing the Iran nuclear talks is now zero.</p>
<p>After President Vladimir Putin lifted the ban on S-300 supply to Iran last Monday, Obama made his first official comment on Friday. He downplayed the significance of the deal, which gives advanced air defense missiles systems to Israel’s archrival in the region.</p>
<p><em>“I’m frankly surprised that it [the ban on S-300 deliveries to Iran] held this long, given that they were not prohibited by [UN Security Council] sanctions from selling these defensive weapons,”</em> Obama said on Friday at a news conference in the White House, after talks with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.</p>
<p>Obama recalled that Moscow held off the deal for six years at America's request.</p>
<p><em>"This is actually a sale that was slated to happen in 2009, when I first met with then-Prime Minister [Vladimir] Putin. They actually stopped the sale, paused or suspended the sale, at our request,"</em> Obama said.</p>
<p>The $800-million contract signed between Moscow and Tehran in 2007 to supply five S-300 squadrons was put on hold in 2009, and terminated altogether after the UN imposed sanctions on Iran in 2010.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rt.com/news/249229-russia-s300-delivery-iran" target="_blank">READ MORE: Putin lifts ban on delivery of S-300 missile systems to Iran</a></strong></p>
<p>President Obama said he’s not surprised that President Putin has now lifted the ban, <em>“given some of the deterioration in the relationship between Russia and the United States, and the fact that their economy is under strain, and this was a substantial sale.”</em></p>
<p>During his 13th annual Q&A marathon televised from Moscow on Thursday, President Putin also mentioned that the S-300 complexes for Iran had been manufactured, but not delivered, so the manufacturer suffered substantial losses as a result of the deal’s annihilation. Moscow insists the S-300 squadrons made for Tehran were disassembled.</p>
<p>The news about Moscow finally supplying Tehran with powerful air defenses made America’s major Middle East ally – Israel – twitch with discomfort.</p>
<p>Following Russia’s decision to lift a ban on supplying S-300 missile systems to Iran, the Israeli PM called President Putin to express his <em>“grave concerns.”</em> Netanyahu received a detailed explanation of the logic behind Moscow’s move, which pointed out that S-300 is a defensive weapon in the first place.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rt.com/news/249725-netanyahu-iran-s300-concerns" target="_blank">READ MORE: S-300 in Iran ‘no threat to Israel’: Putin briefs Netanyahu on defensive weapons concept</a></strong></p>
<p>Russia’s explanations were made in vain, as Prime Minster Netanyahu’s office released a statement, claiming that Moscow’s step <em>“will only encourage Iranian aggression in the region and further undermine the stability of the Middle East.”</em></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rt.com/news/russia-halts-syria-s300-contract-822" target="_blank">READ MORE: Russia halts plans to supply S-300 missile system to Syria – reports</a></strong></p>
<p>Obama’s comment on S-300 supply to Iran sparked <em>“shock and amazement”</em> among Israeli analysts, the Times of Israel reported.</p>
<p><em>“Jaws dropped”</em> around Israel’s Channel 10 News studio, said the diplomatic commentator Ben Caspit.</p>
<p><em>“He’s amazed that the Russians honored an agreement with him [for this long]? That’s what is astonishing,”</em> the station’s news anchor Alon Ben David said.</p>
<p>Channel 10 cited unnamed senior Israeli diplomatic officials as saying that the prospect of Israel derailing the deal in US-led talks with Iran on its nuclear program was now zero. <em>“The Iran issue is finished,”</em> the officials said.</p>
<p><a href="http://rt.com/news/249057-netanyahu-fear-iran-deal" target="_blank">READ MORE: Netanyahu’s biggest fear? That Iran ‘honors nuclear deal’</a></p>
<p>A former Israeli diplomat, Dan Arbell, told CNN: <em>“It does seem to have given some prominent countries or some members of the international community the feeling that there's a green light to go ahead and start resuming commercial defense ties with Iran.”</em></p>
<p>Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East aide to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, commented to CNN: <em>"The Russians know, and so do the Israelis, that Iran has sort of been kosherized by the fact that it's in the negotiating process."</em></p>
<p>On Thursday, ahead of Obama’s statement on S-300, US Army General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said no supply of sophisticated surface-to-air missile systems to Iran can undermine the Pentagon's capability of preventing Iran from making a nuclear weapon of its own.</p>
<p><em>“We've known about the potential for that [S-300] system to be sold to Iran for several years, and have accounted for it in all of our planning,”</em> Dempsey told reporters.</p>
<p><em>“The military option that I owe the president to both encourage the diplomatic solution, and if the diplomacy fails to ensure that Iran doesn't achieve a nuclear weapon, is intact,”</em> Dempsey said, without specifying how the US is going to break through Iran’s notably up-to date air defenses.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rt.com/usa/246753-pentagon-ugraded-bunker-bomb" target="_blank">READ MORE: Pentagon upgrades biggest ‘bunker buster’ bomb in case Iran talks fail - report</a></strong></p>
<p>When supplied to Iran, squadrons of S-300 anti-aircraft complexes will securely lock off the skies within at least 200 kilometers from Iran’s most important nuclear and military facilities.</p>
Iran Accuses U.S. of Lying Ab…
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2015-04-08T22:46:25.369Z
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<p><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">Iran Accuses U.S. of Lying About New Nuke Agreement</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Says White House misleading Congress, American people with fact sheet…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">Iran Accuses U.S. of Lying About New Nuke Agreement</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Says White House misleading Congress, American people with fact sheet</span></p>
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<p><span>LAUSANNE, Switzerland — </span>Just hours after the announcement of what the United States characterized as a historic agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, the country’s leading negotiator lashed out at the Obama administration for lying about the details of a tentative framework.</p>
<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the Obama administration of misleading the American people and Congress in a <a href="http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Media+Note+-+April+2+2015+-+Lausanne.pdf">fact sheet</a> it released following the culmination of negotiations with the Islamic Republic.</p>
<p>Zarif bragged <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-brags-about-nuke-concessions/" target="_blank">in an earlier press conference with reporters</a> that the United States had tentatively agreed to let it continue the enrichment of uranium, the key component in a nuclear bomb, as well as key nuclear research.</p>
<p>Zarif additionally said Iran would have all nuclear-related sanctions lifted once a final deal is signed and that the country would not be forced to shut down any of its currently operating nuclear installations.</p>
<p>Following a subsequent press conference by Secretary of State John Kerry—and release of a administration fact sheet on Iranian concessions—Zarif lashed out on Twitter over what he dubbed lies.</p>
<p>“The solutions are good for all, as they stand,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/583723860522115072" target="_blank">tweeted</a>. “There is no need to spin using ‘fact sheets’ so early on.”</p>
<p>Zarif went on to push back against claims by Kerry that the sanctions relief would be implemented in a phased fashion—and only after Iran verifies that it is not conducting any work on the nuclear weapons front.</p>
<p>Zarif, echoing previous comments, said the United States has promised an immediate termination of sanctions.</p>
<p>“Iran/5+1 Statement: ‘US will cease the application of ALL nuclear-related secondary economic and financial sanctions.’ Is this gradual?” he <a href="https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/583731816437276672" target="_blank">wrote</a> on Twitter.</p>
<p>He then <a href="https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/583732251667668992" target="_blank">suggested</a> a correction: “Iran/P5+1 Statement: ‘The EU will TERMINATE the implementation of ALL nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions’. How about this?”</p>
<p>The pushback from Iran’s chief diplomat follows a pattern of similar accusations by senior Iranian political figures after the announcement of previous agreements.</p>
<p>Following the signing of an interim agreement with Iran aimed at scaling back its nuclear work, Iran accused the United States of <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-white-house-lying-about-details-of-nuke-deal/" target="_blank">lying</a> about details of the agreement.</p>
<p>On Thursday evening, Zarif told reporters the latest agreement allows Iran to keep operating its nuclear program.</p>
<p>“None of those measures” that will move to scale back Iran’s program “include closing any of our facilities,” Zarif said. “We will continue enriching; we will continue research and development.”</p>
<p>“Our heavy water reactor will be modernized and we will continue the Fordow facility,” Zarif said. “We will have centrifuges installed in Fordow, but not enriching.”</p>
<p>The move to allow Iran to keep centrifuges at Fordow, a controversial onetime military site, has elicited concern that Tehran could ramp up its nuclear work with ease.</p>
<p>Zarif said that once a final agreement is made, “all U.S. nuclear related secondary sanctions will be terminated,” he said. “This, I think, would be a major step forward.”</p>
<p>Zarif also revealed that Iran will be allowed to sell “enriched uranium” in the international market place and will be “hopefully making some money” from it.</p>
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2015-04-08T22:38:03.737Z
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<p>Just to rub the point home: this is what the Iranian leaders and people are saying about those filthy Americans, whilst they negotiate new terms from them:</p>
<blockquote><h1>Revolution Day 2015 In Iran: A Regime-Organized Display Of Hatred For U.S., Obama<br/><br/><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8451.htm" target="_blank">http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8451.htm</a></span></h1>
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<p>Just to rub the point home: this is what the Iranian leaders and people are saying about those filthy Americans, whilst they negotiate new terms from them:</p>
<blockquote><h1>Revolution Day 2015 In Iran: A Regime-Organized Display Of Hatred For U.S., Obama<br/><br/><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8451.htm" target="_blank">http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8451.htm</a></span></h1>
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The Shadow of Munich Haunts t…
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2015-04-08T22:35:15.738Z
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<h1 class="entry-title">The Shadow of Munich Haunts the Iran Negotiations</h1>
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<h1 class="entry-title">The Shadow of Munich Haunts the Iran Negotiations</h1>
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<p><span class="drop">T</span>he Western capitulation to Adolf Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement is cited as classic appeasement that destroyed Czechoslovakia, backfired on France and Britain, and led to World War II.</p>
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<p>All of that is true.</p>
<p>But there was much more that caused the Munich debacle than simple Western naiveté. The full tragedy of that ill-fated agreement should warn us on the eve of the Obama’s administration’s gullible agreement with Iran on nuclear proliferation.</p>
<p>Fable one is the idea that most people saw right through the Munich folly. True, Europeans knew that Hitler had never once told the truth and was already murdering German citizens who were Jews, Communists, or homosexuals. But Europeans did not care all that much.</p>
<p>Instead, the Western world was ecstatic over the agreement. After the carnage of World War I, Europeans would do anything to avoid even a small confrontation — even if such appeasement all but ensured a far greater bloodbath than the one that began in 1914.</p>
<p>Another myth was that Hitler’s Wehrmacht was strong and the democracies were weak. In fact, the combined French and British militaries were far larger than Hitler’s. French Char tanks and British Spitfire fighters were as good as, or superior to, their German counterparts.</p>
<p>Czechoslovakia had formidable defenses and an impressive arms industry. Poland and perhaps even the Soviet Union were ready to join a coalition to stop Hitler from dissolving the Czech state.</p>
<p>It is also untrue that the Third Reich was united. Many of Hitler’s top generals did not want war. Yet each time Hitler successfully called the Allies’ bluff — in the Rhineland or with the annexation of Austria — the credibility of his doubters sank while his own reckless risk-taking became even more popular.</p>
<p>Munich was hardly a compassionate agreement. In callous fashion it immediately doomed millions of Czechs and put Poland on the target list of the Third Reich.</p>
<p>Munich was directly tied to the vanity of Neville Chamberlain. In the first few weeks after Munich, Chamberlain basked in adulation, posing as the humane savior of Western civilization. In contrast, loud skeptic Winston Churchill was dismissed by the media and public as an old warmonger.</p>
<p>Hitler failed to appreciate the magnanimity and concessions of the French and British. He later called his Munich diplomatic partners “worms.” Hitler said of the obsequious Chamberlain, “I’ll kick him downstairs and jump on his stomach in front of the photographers.”</p>
<p>The current negotiations with the Iranians in Lausanne, Switzerland, have all the hallmarks of the Munich negotiations.</p>
<p>Most Westerners accept that the Iranian government funds terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. It has all but taken over Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Yet the idea of stronger sanctions, blockades, or even force to stop Iranian efforts to get a bomb are considered scarier than Iran getting a bomb that it just possibly might not threaten to use.</p>
<p>The U.S. and its NATO partners are far stronger than Iran in every imaginable measure of military and economic strength. The Iranian economy is struggling, its government is corrupt, and its conventional military is obsolete. Iran’s only chance of gaining strength is to show both its own population and the world at large that stronger Western powers backed down in fear of its threats and recklessness.</p>
<p>Iran is not united. It is a mishmash nation in which over a third of the population is not Persian. Millions of protestors hit the streets in 2009. An Iranian journalist covering the talks defected in Switzerland — and said that U.S. officials at the talks are there mainly to speak on behalf of Iran.</p>
<p>By reaching an agreement with Iran, John Kerry and Barack Obama hope to salvage some sort of legacy — in the vain fashion of Chamberlain — out of a heretofore failed foreign policy.</p>
<p>There are more Munich parallels. The Iranian agreement will force rich Sunni nations to get their own bombs to ensure a nuclear Middle East standoff. A deal with Iran shows callous disagreed for our close ally Israel, which is serially threatened by Iran’s mullahs. The United States is distant from Iran. But our allies in the Middle East and Europe are within its missile range.</p>
<p>Supporters of the Obama administration deride skeptics such as Democratic senator Robert Menendez and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as if they were doubting old Churchills.</p>
<p>Finally, the Iranians, like Hitler, have only contempt for the administration that has treated them so fawningly. During the negotiations in Switzerland, the Iranians blew up a mock U.S. aircraft carrier. Their supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, did his usual “death to America” shtick before adoring crowds.</p>
<p>Our dishonor in Lausanne, as with Munich, may avoid a confrontation in the present, but our shame will guarantee a war in the near future.</p>
<p><a href="http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=8324" target="_blank">http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=8324</a></p>
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No, you have put it in the ri…
tag:4freedoms.com,2015-04-08:3766518:Comment:164768
2015-04-08T22:28:48.941Z
Alan Lake
http://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>No, you have put it in the right place, and you beat me to it! But there are some postings on this topic, scattered about on 4F, that are like lost children - because they were written before this 'home' was created. If I get time I will gather them up and add them here. When you gather all the relevant information in one place, patterns become very clear and it becomes much easier to prove your case.</p>
<p>No, you have put it in the right place, and you beat me to it! But there are some postings on this topic, scattered about on 4F, that are like lost children - because they were written before this 'home' was created. If I get time I will gather them up and add them here. When you gather all the relevant information in one place, patterns become very clear and it becomes much easier to prove your case.</p>
I didnt realise it was in the…
tag:4freedoms.com,2015-04-08:3766518:Comment:165002
2015-04-08T09:22:05.920Z
Almog
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I didnt realise it was in the wrong place
I didnt realise it was in the wrong place
Thanks for making this forum.…
tag:4freedoms.com,2015-04-08:3766518:Comment:164827
2015-04-08T02:50:00.806Z
Alan Lake
http://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>Thanks for making this forum. I wish I'd made one earlier, because now the relevant articles on the Iran Nuclear situation are scattered about on the site. When this topic first arose, it wasn't obvious it was going to become such big mess.</p>
<p>Thanks for making this forum. I wish I'd made one earlier, because now the relevant articles on the Iran Nuclear situation are scattered about on the site. When this topic first arose, it wasn't obvious it was going to become such big mess.</p>